Far Cry 4 Patch 1.02 removes God Rays from PS4 version

Thanks Ubishit!

Possibly some NVIDIA related dispute or a way to increase the frame rate? Because if it's the latter, I haven't seen any reports of improvement.

Oh my God

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30 fps is not glorious enough for the godly rays of Nvidia. The PS4 never had God Rays or Volumetric Fog anyway, it had lower quality lighting than the PC version to begin with, now it's even lower.

Also, your title says 1.04 but the video is showing 1.02.

I think it still looks good though from the video you posted. You'll need the patch if you want to play online too, so not much you can do. The game is too fun in coop to skip it for some extra rays.

Probably Nvidia wanting you to buy their cards so you can experience dat PHYSX

I never even noticed them. I don't see why they'd do it for performance reasons. Could be a parity thing or the feature was suppose to only be on certain hardware like you mention. Or maybe it's just a glitch.

The god rays on PS4 are NOT the same god-rays on PC. On PC they are volumetric and tessellated. They actually are fully dynamic and light the scene properly and realistically. They are pretty awesome.

They are also NONE of those thing son PS4. The PS4 version is the standard "flare" effect when looking directly at the sun through geometry like trees. So this has nothing to do with Nvidia.

It's either a bug, or the poor crappy PS4 just can't handle even last gen god-rays :p

NO GOD RAYS? I was considering purchasing this on christmas, but this put the final nail in the coffin. I'm done Ubisoft, you went too far.

Seriously though, what the frack is up with Ubi? Every single game that they've released has been a downgrade. You'd think a dev would release patches to actually make the game better, instead they just continually take away features.

They didn't even mention it in the patch updates, it's almost as if they didn't think people would notice (or that people would just run with it if they did).

The console don't have godrays. If you google "Far Cry 4 god rays ps4", you get that video has the first result.

lol tc

My PC can handle the god rays on setting. But, I turn it off anyway. The way everything is hazy even close up is totally unrealistic. I like it hazy in the distance and vivid up front.

Is it true that you see the face of God when you look in the rays?

On consoles you see the face of YAHWEH. On PC you see the face of Cthulhu, the TRUE god.

I sneeze every time I try to look. The real thing, I mean. ;)

But i saw GabeN while playing the PC version. He said to buy more hats in TF2 and cases in CS GO

not the god rays! now they only need to take 1/3 of the resolution and it will look like the xbone version.

There was probably a performance related issue or some sort of freezing/crashing related issue. From what I've read they aren't the same as the Nvidia ones.

Sounds like they didn't enhance the image quality that much so losing them is no big deal.

Yeah, I wouldn't even really consider these god rays. It's a minor effect that only occurs when looking directly at the sun. Hardly comparable to the PC version's god rays, which I would point out also runs great on AMD hardware. I am honestly surprised they couldn't even get the volumetric fog type god rays running on the next gen consoles as it barely dents my framerate whatsoever.

@deadline-zero0: Resist the temptations. Once you get into unusual hat trading, you'll be stuck with it for a long while.

The ps4 version probably didn't even have any to begin with unless it was really crappy ones.

Was not a fan of the god rays on the pc version, but it should at least be an option if there was a minimal performance hit.

The god rays look super shitty anyways, they wash out all color in most weather states.

He talks about the same issue in this video... I did find the video interesting, but his PC version for some reason runs like crap. FC4 for me runs really good, and sticks to 74 fps on ultra.

Its nothing to do with Nvidia. The god rays on the console version are the same as godrays on the PC version when not using the NVidia setting. You can hardly see them anyway so PS4 is not loosing much. Nvidia god rays are very noticeable, too pronounced. Though they do look really good in some indoor areas.

This is why I am always cautious of game patches these days. They end up breaking more things then actually fixing them.

Hopefully the performance is a bit better now. There are many more console games that can't even maintain 30 fps that could be "optimized" in this way. When a game runs at 60 fps some minor dips is hardly noticeable but If the devs can't get the frame rate stable at 30 fps they should cut the things that bogs down the performance, whether it's physics or graphics, not the AI of course. Or something like Wolfenstein The New Order, which is using an alternating resolution to keep the frame rate more stable.

Not mine. I use Ultra, SSBC, SMAA. God rays are off though.

@mikhail: Do you love to randomly make shit up? The Console version had god rays and the only thing it lacked as the standard Nvidia exclusive BS. This further shows that developers are purposely gimping console versions for Nvidias bullshit.

Lens flare is not the same thing as God Rays. Quiet down, peasant.

PS4 can't handle.

Too bad.

The god rays on PC look amazing.

interesting video

More alt accounts I see don't know what's the point since your not really accomplishing anything here.

@multikilll: go away cranler

Your telling me you made a account to correct him when he never mention anything about the framerate

Another banned alt

Consoles never had nvidia enhanced godrays.